We request anonymous abstracts of 600-1000 words (plus references) in plain text or PDF, plus a short abstract of up to 120 words. Accepted papers will be presented at the conference and published in the proceedings. (We plan to provide a copy of the proceedings to the corresponding author.) We foresee slots of 30 minutes per talk, including discussion.

All submissions will be reviewed double-blind by 2-3 members of the programme committee.

Technical note: The EasyChair system will ask you for an “abstract” and a “paper”. For us, “abstract” refers to the short abstract (up to 120 words) in plain text, while “paper” refers to the long abstract (600-1000 words), which can be submitted as a PDF or plain text. Accordingly, please do not use the check-box “Abstract Only”. (The abbreviation “Corr. Auth.” Stands for “corresponding author”.)

The conference will deal with fundamental issues of present and future artificial intelligence, such as:

Basic Concepts of AI

Complexity

Computation

Consciousness

Creativity

Free will

Information

Intelligence

Intentionality & meaning & representation

Life

Superintelligence & singularity

Ethics of AI

Human dignity and AI

Impact on society

Machine ethics

Responsibility & rights for machines

Risk to humanity & AI safety

Approaches & Methods of AI

Big data analytics

Cognitive architecture

Cooperation & interaction

Cybernetics

Dynamical systems

Embodiment

Enactive cognition

Embedded & extended mind

Expert systems

Machine learning & neural networks

Neuroscience & AI

Non-symbolic AI

Robotics

Challenges of AI

Action selection & rational choice

Brain emulation and uploading

Chinese room & symbol grounding

Common sense

Cyborgs & extended mind

Frame problem

Gödelian arguments

Turing test

…

PUBLICATION

Accepted papers and posters will be published in a volume of proceedings in 2018. Selected papers will be published in a special volume of a leading philosophy journal in 2018.

The papers from the 2011 and 2013 events have been published in ‘Minds and Machines’, an edited volume of the SAPERE series (Springer) and an edited volume of the ‘Synthese’ series (Springer). They have been apparently been downloaded over 115.000 times from the publisher’s site alone (https://twitter.com/vincentcmueller/status/872826564869840896)

The 2017 conference also serves as preparation for the Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence(ed. V. C. Müller), forthcoming OUP 2019.